Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress.

Explore Connecticut's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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Public Act No. 21-111: Establishing the Community Investment Fund 2030 Board

Establishes the Community Investment Fund 2030 Board within the Department of Economic and Community Development.

The Community Investment Fund 2030 will award up to $175 million each fiscal year for capital improvement programs, such as brownfield remediation, affordable housing, infrastructure, clean energy development, and home or public facility rehabilitation.

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Connecticut Conservation and Development Policies Plan

The Conservation and Development Policies Plan for Connecticut 2025 – 2030 (C&D Plan) is the state’s comprehensive strategies plan for land and water resource conservation, preservation, and development, adopted every five years by the
Connecticut General Assembly. The C&D Plan establishes a set of priorities affecting the future of the state’s shared natural, built, cultural, and social environments. These priorities, expressed as visions in this C&D Plan, are intended to guide state agencies as they work individually and collaboratively to advance the state’s goals.

This C&D Plan is different from its most recent iterations. In addition to being framed around new priorities, this C&D Plan is structured to emphasize the overlapping, and sometimes competing, nature of these priorities. This Plan was also developed with substantial input from state agencies, legislators, advocates, and other stakeholders.

Specifically, agencies must be consistent with the C&D Plan whenever they undertake or authorize grants for the following actions using more than $200,000 of state or federal funding:

- The acquisition of real property
- The development or improvement of real property
- The acquisition of public transportation equipment or facilities.

DEEP Announces RFQ for Community Resource Hubs

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) released a Request for Qualifications seeking proposals from qualified organizations to serve as DEEP Community Resource Hubs in environmental justice communities in Connecticut. The goal of the Community Resource Hubs initiative is to incorporate community input into program design, lower barriers to access and enrollment in DEEP programs, and better connect Connecticut residents in environmental justice communities with DEEP services and programs

DEEP’s Community Resource Hubs will connect residents in our state’s EJ communities to ensure that our economically distressed communities in both rural and urban areas are able to learn about and receive these benefits on equal footing.